Roles and capabilities web editor

In goes a week of work, and presto: out comes the first working version of the web editor for roles and capabilities, being completed as of revision 4971 (changeset). Here is a screenshot for the visually inclined:

Features:

• Viewing the table (with real contents taken from the database, of course)
• Adding a role based on an existing role
• Updating the capabilities of a role
• Removing roles
• Detecting the addition of a role name that already exists
• Detecting the addition of a blank role
• Detection of a “based on” role that does not exist
• A clean, easy-to-understand interface (but the table is really big)

To do:

• Disable editing the “admin” and “empty” roles. Right now, no integrity is corrupted, but the error message is ugly and utterly incomprehensible.
• When deleting a role, deal with users who still have that role in some project. Perhaps reset their role to “empty”.
• Validate the names for new roles. ASCII-only? Length restrictions? Character restrictions (e.g. no space)?
• Make empty or viewer as the default “based on”?
• Make the names of the capabilities more user-friendly
• Divide the two sections in a more visible way

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